The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Vygotsky and Soviet Russian Defectology

   1. Vygotsky and Soviet Russian Defectology

      • Jane E. Knox, Carol Stevens

      Pages 1-25

3. General Problems of Defectology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Introduction: The Fundamental Problems of Defectology

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 29-51

   3. Defect and Compensation

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 52-64

   4. Principles of Education for Physically Handicapped Children

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 65-75

   5. The Psychology and Pedagogy of Children’s Handicaps

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 76-93

4. Special Problems of Defectology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The Blind Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 97-109

   3. Principles of Social Education for the Deaf-Mute Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 110-121

   4. Compensatory Processes in the Development of the Retarded Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 122-138

   5. The Difficult Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 139-149

   6. Moral Insanity

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 150-152

   7. The Dynamics of Child Character

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 153-163

   8. Defectology and the Study of the Development and Education of Abnormal Children

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 164-170

5. Questions at the Forefront of Defectology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. The Study of the Development of the Difficult Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 173-177

   3. Bases for Working with Mentally Retarded and Physically Handicapped Children

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 178-183

   4. Fundamental Principles in a Plan for Pedological Research in the Field of “Difficult Children”

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 184-190

   5. The Collective as a Factor in the Development of the Abnormal Child

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

      Pages 191-208

vi the text can engender. Of course, translations by scholars of advanced standing are not a novelty in modern scholarship. The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative English versions of them are rare-a moment when the frequency of works about Vygotsky threatens to outstrip the availability of work by Vygotsky. Since seminal thinkers make their contributions by provoking further thought, admirers ofVygotsky will, of course, welcome the spate of interpretation, reinterpretation, revision, reconstruction, and deconstruction which Vygotsky's work has invited and will participate with alacrity in the activity. Yet, the translations appearing in these volumes are not offered as interpretations in the sense that they are new analytic works about Vygotsky. They are offered to serve as basic texts for readers of English who may be interested in what Vygotsky himself had to say. They are offered to scholars and students, who will make their own interpretations (in its broader sense) and who will evaluate the interpretations of others. Having taken the view that a good translation is essentially an interpretation, the claim that this volume is an accurate and authentic interpretation of Vygotsky's meanings and intentions-and only of those meanings and intentions-must await hoped-for reassurances from those reviewers and critics who are qualified to make such judgments.

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• John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

  Robert W. Rieber

• Bureau of Educational Evaluation, Garden City, USA

  Aaron S. Carton

• State University of New York at Stony Brook (Emeritus), Stony Brook, USA

  Aaron S. Carton

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